Tag: Delegation

Due to their organizations needing to adapt to a rapidly changing business environment, today’s Managers and Supervisors face what at times can seem to be a host of overwhelming challenges, such as managing larger staffs and facing increased demands on their time from both above and below. To survive and thrive in this type of climate, it’s vital that Managers and Supervisors master 7 vital day-to-day skills that have proven timeless in their importance. These are:

Designing and Running Better Meetings

Holding Effective Team Discussions

Delegating Work Successfully

Managing Projects

Time Management

Coaching Employees

Leading Effectively

How to Evaluate How Well You Use Them

One of the best ways to evaluate how well you use each of these 7 skill areas is to test them against your own experience.

To start, look at your typical day. How often do you need to use these skills? Do you encounter situations that call on them over and over, probably each day? Next, look at either today or the last few days. What went right, what went wrong? Which of the items you noted related to one or more of the 7 skills? Many of you will probably be able to easily identify how use of these skills, of non-use of them, probably made a big difference.

If any of the 7 skills did make a big difference, look at the descriptions of the areas you need to master in each skill area described below. Which of these areas are you doing well, and which do you need to develop or enhance? This gives you a basis for developing your own development plan. For those areas that you need to improve locate the “Manager’s Toolkit” e-handbook from KAW Consulting (see below) that walks you step-by-step on how to learn and apply the skills in the area you want to enhance.

Following is a list of the major skills needed to be successful in each area.

Designing and Running Better Meetings

Meetings are a vital part of a Managers or Supervisors day. Yet, many seem to fail. In fact, a major survey revealed that 70% of employees feel the meetings they attend are a waste of time. Consequently it’s important that as a Manager or Supervisor understand:

What makes meetings succeed, and why many fail

The crucial roles that need to be filled in each meeting

How to use 8 basic steps to design an Effective Meetings

How to use some basic tips for Running an Effective Meeting

How to deal with common problems that can derail a meeting such as:

– Stares and Silence

– Negative Remarks

– Separate Agendas

– One person trying to dominate the discussion

Holding Effective Team Discussions

Look at the types of discussions that Managers and Supervisors hold with their teams and you’ll find they often fall into 5 areas. Consequently, Managers and Supervisors need to be able to effectively hold discussions with their teams to:

Brainstorm ideas

Solve Problems

Make Decisions

Plan Tasks

Set Goals

Delegating Work Successfully

Not only do Managers and Supervisors have to manage larger staffs, they’re also expected to make sure that their staffs are more and more productive. This means of course that the Managers and Supervisors are skilled at the art of delegating work. Skills in this area include:

Identifying what tasks to delegate

Identifying the right people to delegate to

Identifying the level of delegation that the Manager is comfortable with

Determining what the person doing the task needs, so they can deliver the results the Manager/Supervisor expects.

Conducting the needed follow-up to stay on top of the person’s progress.

Managing Projects

More and more Managers and Supervisors are asked to take a lead role in managing special projects. This can mean having to develop and use a whole new skill set which includes:

One of the implications of managing larger staffs is that individual staff members are going to need to be increasingly self managed. Consequently, it’s vital that Managers and Supervisors know how to provide each staff member with effective coaching to help them be as productive as possible. To coach effectively, a Manager/Supervisor needs to be able to:

Establish the groundwork to have an effective coaching relationship with their employees.

Determine expected performance levels for their employees’ major tasks and responsibilities.

Analyze their employees’ current level of performance against expected levels, and identity areas needed improvement.

Hold an effective coaching discussion to provide employees with feedback on how they are doing, and develop plans for making needed improvements.

Time Management

Of course to be able to apply any of these skills and meet the heavy demands being placed on them, Managers and Supervisors need to become good managers of their time. To do so, they need to become adept at:

Analyzing their job and identifying what to focus on to achieve both what’s expected and their own personal goals.

Developing an ideal picture of how to allocate their time between their various activities.

Analyzing how they’re currently spending their time and identifying the gaps from their ideal picture.

Developing weekly and daily schedules so they focus their time on the activities needed to achieve their goals.

Dealing with time management challenges such as unexpected interruptions, non critical phone calls, high volumes of e-mail, and unproductive meetings.

Effective Leadership

Ultimately, in the eyes of your followers and those who evaluate you as a Manager or Supervisor, it comes down to their perception of you as a Leader. Consequently it’s vital that you understand what make leadership efforts succeed and why they fail. That way you can focus your attention on doing the things necessary to make them succeed, and keep from overlooking some of the common reasons for failure.

Establishing and maintaining credibility with the people you’re trying to lead.

Getting commitment.

Setting the example.

Empowering others to do what needs to be done.

Confronting and overcoming barriers and obstacles.

Managing accomplishment of day-to-day efforts.

On the other hand, leadership efforts that fail, usually don’t meet all of these criteria. They are often lacking, and seriously so in one of the key areas.

How to Learn These Vital Skills

To help you learn and use these vital skills, KAW Consulting developed the “Manager’s Toolkit”, a set of electronic handbooks that guide Managers and Supervisors step by step through each of the processes used in the 7 basic skill areas.

Unlike most books on the 7 key skill areas, that are too complicated and hard to understand, the “Manager’s Toolkit” handbooks are exactly the opposite. They’re written in easy to understand language that walks the Manager or Supervisor step by step through the processes needed to apply each of the 7 key skills. Many even include sample forms and checklists.

Like any great handbook, the handbooks in the “Manager’s Toolkit” are something meant to be used over and over again. And because they’re electronic, Managers and Supervisors can always have them readily accessible. Just call up a handbook and it’s ready to use.

Now Available in Both Kindle and PDF formats.

To meet the demands of our both our U.S. and global users, the following titles in the “Manager’s Toolkit” are on now Kindle:

“Meetings That Work”

“Team Discussion Frameworks”

“Delegating for Results”

“Coaching Skills for Managers and Supervisors”

“Project Management for Managers and Supervisors”

“Time Management for Managers and Supervisors”, and

“The Leadership Framework”.

Both U.S. and International users can purchase them from Amazon.

Because they are on Kindle, you can use Amazon’s Kindle App to store each either on your iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone or other appropriate mobile device and have it readily accessible whenever you them.

For information on these Kindle versions either click the applicable link below, or visit your applicable Amazon website and input the appropriate title in the search criteria.

U.S. users, can enjoy the added benefits of the PDF versions. You can store these handbooks on your computer so you have them accessible each time you need one. They include hyperlinks so you can jump right to the page or section you need without having to spend time scrolling through unneeded pages. If you want hard copy you can print what you need.

You can purchase single copies or share with additional users by purchasing additional licenses. This makes it easy for organizations to increase the productivity of their staffs.

We’ve also made these handbooks very easy to afford and purchase. The most expensive single copy is $21.95. You can purchase directly online and start using right away.

Sharing with additional users across your organization is also easy–just purchase additional licenses (also available online) and send the handbooks out by e-mail.

To view samples of each handbook, and to learn how to purchase copies, click here.

Note: PDF versions available to U.S. purchasers only at this time. International users can purchase available Kindle Versions.

Learn how to use the “Manager’s Toolkit” as a great thank you gift for your special clients and customers.

Looking for a great way to both say thank you and make a great impression on your special clients and customers? Give them a gift that they can use to become more effective in their own jobs.

One easy way to do this, is to give them a special book on a topic they’ve expressed interest in during your various conversations. As part of developing the close relationship that has led to you doing business together, you’ve most likely shared some of the challenges they confront in their jobs. Consequently, if you run across something that would be helpful in meeting these challenges, it’s great to be able to share it with them. If your customer is in Management, for example, they probably face many of the same challenges that Managers face in just about any business, so anything that you can provide to help them meet these challenges would probably be seen as very helpful, and a sign that you understand and appreciate their needs. Consequently, if you’ve found a book that you found very helpful, it would be great to give them a copy of it as well.

While this may not seem to be a big deal, it can provide tremendous benefits. As part of our consulting activities over the years, we received some tremendous books from our clients that not only broadened our horizons about new topics such as marketing, sales and human resources, but also became important resources used in future major projects.

Realizing this, one of the uses we envisioned for our “Manager’s Toolkit” series, was a set of resources that could help people meet the basic challenges that almost everybody faces as part of their day-to-day business activity. Available from Amazon, they can be easily shared between colleagues, and make great ways to say thanks, and perhaps promote future great discussions on how they helped.

Giving them as gift is extremely easy. All you have to do is go to Amazon, find the book you want in the Kindle Store and send it as a gift. You’ll just need the person’s e-mail. You can even specify a delivery date and enclose a personal note.

ABOUT THE “MANAGER’S TOOLKIT”

In today’s challenging economy, organizations need to find ways to substantially boost their Managers’ and Supervisors’ productivity. Fortunately, there is an amazingly simple way of doing so with the “Manager’s Toolkit”electronic handbooksdeveloped by KAW Consulting. Available globally for Kindle via Amazonthese handbooks help Managers and Supervisors deal with their most challenging tasks. Developed for today’s mobile environment, Managers and Supervisors can store them either on their Kindle or Kindle app on their iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, or other appropriate tablet or computer, and have them readily accessible whenever they confront one of these challenges.

Talk with any Manager or Supervisor and you’re probably going to hear either how they’ve either mastered the skills to deal successfully with these challenges, or the headaches they’re experiencing because of them.

The problem to date, is that each Manager or Supervisor usually has to develop their own solution. If they’ve been to training, they may have the handouts to refer to (if they can find them). Or, they may have developed their own reference library of books dealing with these issues.

So, each time they face a challenge, they have to dig through what they’ve got stashed, which is both time-consuming and cumbersome. And what do they do if they’re in one place and the books/materials in another?

Worse yet, everyone’s got their own solution and it’s not easily sharable.

What’s needed is an effective set of tools that all of your Managers and Supervisors can easily reference each time they need help dealing with one of the 5 challenges. Sometimes they need step-by-step guidance on how to deal with it. Other times they just need a quick refresher to make sure they don’t leave anything out.

What’s the Solution?

To help Managers and Supervisors have the needed tools and guidance in one convenient place, KAW Consulting developed the “Manager’s Toolkit“, a set of electronic handbooks that guide Managers and Supervisors step-by-step on how to develop and use the skills needed to deal with the 5 key challenge areas. These are:

“Meetings That Work””

“Delegating For Results”

“Project Management for Managers and Supervisors”

“Coaching Skills for Managers and Supervisors”

“Time Management for Managers and Supervisors”

Unlike most books on the 5 key skill areas, that are too complicated and hard to understand, the “Manager’s Toolkit” electronic handbooks are exactly the opposite. They’re written in easy to understand language that walk the Manager or Supervisor step by step through the processes needed to apply each of the 5 key skills. Many even include sample forms and checklists.

Like any great handbook, the electronic handbooks in the “Manager’s Toolkit” are something meant to be used over and over again. And unlike paper handbooks, that get lost easily, because they’re stored on the Manager’s or Supervisors mobile device or computer, they’reaccessible each time a Manager/Supervisor needs to design a meeting, delegate a task, manage a project, coach an employee or plan how best to manage their own time. Just call up a handbook and it’s ready to use. To save time, and allow the book to function as an e-tool, they can use bookmarks or the hyperlinked Table of Contents to jump right to the page or section they need without having to spend time scrolling through unneeded pages.

HOW DO I FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION?

Links providing information about each of the handbooks including direct links to appropriate global Amazon sites are shown below:

Mobility is the Future: Learn how Managers’ and Supervisors’ can get a great Boost in thier productivity by using the “Manager’s Toolkit” on their mobile devices and computers. using a very low cost method to put the “Manager’s Toolkit” on their workstations, laptops and tablets.

In today’s challenging economy, organizations need to find ways to substantially boost their Managers’ and Supervisors’ productivity. Fortunately, there is an amazingly simple way of doing so with the “Manager’s Toolkit”electronic handbooksdeveloped by KAW Consulting. Available globally for Kindle via Amazonthese handbooks help Managers and Supervisors deal with their most challenging tasks. Developed for today’s mobile environment, Managers and Supervisors can store them either on their Kindle or Kindle app on their iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, or other appropriate tablet or computer, and have them readily accessible whenever they confront one of these challenges.

Talk with any Manager or Supervisor and you’re probably going to hear either how they’ve either mastered the skills to deal successfully with these challenges, or the headaches they’re experiencing because of them.

The problem to date, is that each Manager or Supervisor usually has to develop their own solution. If they’ve been to training, they may have the handouts to refer to (if they can find them). Or, they may have developed their own reference library of books dealing with these issues.

So, each time they face a challenge, they have to dig through what they’ve got stashed, which is both time-consuming and cumbersome. And what do they do if they’re in one place and the books/materials in another?

Worse yet, everyone’s got their own solution and it’s not easily sharable.

What’s needed is an effective set of tools that all of your Managers and Supervisors can easily reference each time they need help dealing with one of the 5 challenges. Sometimes they need step-by-step guidance on how to deal with it. Other times they just need a quick refresher to make sure they don’t leave anything out.

What’s the Solution?

To help Managers and Supervisors have the needed tools and guidance in one convenient place, KAW Consulting developed the “Manager’s Toolkit“, a set of electronic handbooks that guide Managers and Supervisors step-by-step on how to develop and use the skills needed to deal with the 5 key challenge areas. These are:

“Meetings That Work””

“Delegating For Results”

“Project Management for Managers and Supervisors”

“Coaching Skills for Managers and Supervisors”

“Time Management for Managers and Supervisors”

Unlike most books on the 5 key skill areas, that are too complicated and hard to understand, the “Manager’s Toolkit” electronic handbooks are exactly the opposite. They’re written in easy to understand language that walk the Manager or Supervisor step by step through the processes needed to apply each of the 5 key skills. Many even include sample forms and checklists.

Like any great handbook, the electronic handbooks in the “Manager’s Toolkit” are something meant to be used over and over again. And unlike paper handbooks, that get lost easily, because they’re stored on the Manager’s or Supervisors mobile device or computer, they’reaccessible each time a Manager/Supervisor needs to design a meeting, delegate a task, manage a project, coach an employee or plan how best to manage their own time. Just call up a handbook and it’s ready to use. To save time, and allow the book to function as an e-tool, they can use bookmarks or the hyperlinked Table of Contents to jump right to the page or section they need without having to spend time scrolling through unneeded pages.

How Do I Get These Tools Out to the Organization?

Making the electronic handbooks available to your Managers and Supervisors is extremely easy. Just let your Managers and Supervisors know of their availability on Kindle,and have them purchase the books they need directly from there. Links providing information about each of the handbooks including direct links to apprporiate global Amazon sites are shown below:

Learn how to use your Kindle or the Kindle App on your iPad, iPhone, or other applicable tablet as a vital management tool on a day-to-day basis.

As a Manager or Supervisor in today’s rapidly changing business environment, you face a host of overwhelming challenges, such as managing larger staffs, managing change, leading projects and facing increased demands on your time from both above and below. To survive and thrive in this type of climate, it’s vital you master the vital day-to-day skills that have proven timeless in their importance. Among the most important are:

Designing and Running Better Meetings

Holding Effective Team Discussions

Delegating Work Successfully

Managing Projects and Participating on Project Teams

Time Management

Coaching Employees

Using Basic Leadership Skills

How to Use Your Kindle, iPad, iPhone or Tablet to help meet these challenges.

To help Managers and Supervisors learn and use these vital skills, KAW Consulting developed the “Manager’s Toolkit” set of electronic handbooks for Kindle that guide Managers and Supervisors step by step through each of the processes used in these basic skill areas. They both teach you the basics, and then serve as an important day-to-day reference.

Because they’re on Kindle, you can store them either on your Kindle or Kindle app on your iPad, iPhone, Android or other appropriate tablet and have them readily accessible every time you need them. This makes them incredibly powerful tools you can refer to whenever you need to design a meeting, delegate a task, coach an employee, manage a project, or decide how best to manage your time.

Unlike most books on key skill areas, that are too complicated and hard to understand, the “Manager’s Toolkit” handbooks are exactly the opposite. They’re written in easy to understand language that walks you step by step through the processes needed to apply each of these key skills. They even include sample forms and/or checklists.

Available Globally

To meet the demands of our global users, the following titles in the “Manager’s Toolkit“ are now available:

“Meetings ThatWork“

“Delegating for Results“,

“Coaching Skills for Managers and Supervisors“

“Project Management for Managers and Supervisors“

“Time Management for Managers and Supervisors“

“The Leadership Framework“

Both U.S. and International users can purchase them from Amazon.

For information on these Kindle versions either click the applicable link below, or visit your applicable Amazon website and input the appropriate title in the search criteria.

To help you understand what you’ll learn in these handbooks, here’s a list of some of the major skills that they cover.

Designing and Running Better Meetings

Meetings are a vital part of a Managers or Supervisors day. Yet, many seem to fail. In fact, a major survey revealed that 70% of employees feel the meetings they attend are a waste of time. Consequently it’s important that as a Manager or Supervisor understand:

What makes meetings succeed, and why many fail.

The crucial roles that need to be filled in each meeting.

How to use 8 basic steps to design an Effective Meeting.

How to use some basic tips for Running an Effective Meeting.

How to deal with common problems that can derail a meeting such as:

– Stares and Silence

– Negative Remarks

– Separate Agendas

– One person trying to dominate the discussion

Holding Effective Team Discussions

Look at the types of discussions that Managers and Supervisors hold with their teams and you’ll find they often fall into 5 areas. Consequently, Managers and Supervisors need to be able to effectively hold discussions with their teams to:

Brainstorm ideas

Solve Problems

Make Decisions

Plan Tasks

Set Goals

Delegating Work Successfully

Not only do Managers and Supervisors have to manage larger staffs, they’re also expected to make sure that their staffs are more and more productive. This means of course that the Managers and Supervisors are skilled at the art of delegating work. Skills in this area include:

Identifying what tasks to delegate.

Identifying the right people to delegate to.

Identifying the level of delegation that the Manager is comfortable with.

Determining what the person doing the task needs, so they can deliver the results the Manager/Supervisor expects.

Conducting the needed follow-up to stay on top of the person’s progress.

Coaching Employees

One of the implications of managing larger staffs is that individual staff members are going to need to be increasingly self managed. Consequently, it’s vital that Managers and Supervisors know how to provide each staff member with effective coaching to help them be as productive as possible. To coach effectively, a Manager/Supervisor needs to be able to:

Establish the groundwork to have an effective coaching relationship with their employees.

Determine expected performance levels for their employees’ major tasks and responsibilities.

Provide their employees with the needed training.

Analyze their employees’ current level of performance against expected levels, and identify areas needing improvement.

Hold an effective coaching discussion to provide employees with feedback on how they are doing, and develop plans for making needed improvements.

Project Management

As part of their work, Supervisors and Managers are often asked to manage or participate on a project in addition to their regular duties. Yet, because they are non routine events, successfully managing projects require different skills than Supervisors and Managers use in their day-to-day work. These skills include the ability to:

These basic skills are critical regardless of how the project is managed–whether using project management software or tools the Supervisor or Manager develops themselves. They focus on the critical steps before entering data into project management tools.

Time Management

Of course to be able to apply any of these skills and meet the heavy demands being placed on them, Managers and Supervisors need to become good managers of their time. To do so, they need to become adept at:

Analyzing their job and identifying what to focus on to achieve both what’s expected and their own personal goals.

Developing an ideal picture of how to allocate their time between their various activities.

Analyzing how they’re currently spending their time and identifying the gaps from their ideal picture.

Developing weekly and daily schedules so they focus their time on the activities needed to achieve their goals.

Dealing with time management challenges such as unexpected interruptions, non critical phone calls, high volumes of e-mail, and unproductive meetings.

Leading Effectively

To lead effectively, it’s important that Mangers and Supervisors understand and use key leadership skills so they can focus their attention on doing the things necessary to succeed, and keep from overlooking some of the common reasons for failure.

Successful delegation is one of the most critical skill sets a Supervisor or Manager needs to develop. Being able to delegate successfully helps you tap into the potential of your staff. Learn how to put “Delegating For Results” in your “Mobile Manager’s Toolkit”so you have it accessible whenever you need to reference it to help you effectively delegate a task.

To meet the demands of our Mobile users, “DELEGATING FOR RESULTS“is now available for Kindle. As an important component of KAW Consulting’s“Manager’s Toolkit”, this allows Managers and Supervisors to add this e-book to their “Mobile Manager’s Toolkit”and have it at their disposal whenever and wherever they need it via any device that has Kindle capability–Kindles, iPads, iPhones, other Smart Phones or tablets.

This post shows you how to order via Amazon so you can start learning and putting these skills to work right away.

Note: Available to U.S. and Global users eligible to purchase from Amazon.

About “Delegating for Results”

Successful delegation is one of the most critical skill sets a Supervisor or Manager needs to develop. Being able to delegate successfully helps you tap into the potential of your staff. It helps you accomplish much more than you could working alone, and allows you to devote your time and efforts to your most critical tasks, or things you do best. Put simply, being able to delegate successfully is one of the keys to a successful career in Supervision or Management.

To help Managers, Supervisors and other Leaders learn these critical skills, KAW Consulting developed “DELEGATING FOR RESULTS” an easy to understand e-book will help you learn the keys delegating successfully. You’ll learn how to:

Identify what tasks to delegate

Identify the right people to delegate to

Identify the level of delegation that you’re comfortable with

Determine what the person doing the task needs to be able to deliver the results you expect.

Hold effective delegation meetings.

Conduct the needed follow-up to stay on top of the person’s progress.

Unlike most books that describe the delegation process in general terms, “DELEGATING FOR RESULTS” walks you through the process step by step, helping you think of the key ingredients to make your delegation successful, and avoid the common problems that crop up in unsuccessful ones. It even includes forms to help you analyze your major tasks and identify which ones are excellent candidates to delegate, furnish the person you’re delegating to with the important information they need to understand about the task, and a checklist to make sure you’ve considered the vitals steps when planning your delegation.

Designed specifically for e-book users this version of “DELEGATING FOR RESULTS” is something you’ll want to keep on hand and refer to each time you need to delegate a task.

How to Order

To view information on and order the Kindle version of “DELEGATING FOR RESULTS” either click the applicable link below, or visit your applicable Amazon website and input “Delegating for Results” in the search criteria.

To meet the demands of our global users, “DELEGATING FOR RESULTS“is now available for Kindle.

Because it’s on Kindle, you can store it either on your Kindle or Kindle app on your iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone or other appropriate tablet and have it readily accessible whenever you need to refer to it.

This post shows you how to order via Amazon so you can start learning and putting these skills to work right away.

About “Delegating for Results”

Successful delegation is one of the most critical skill sets a Supervisor or Manager needs to develop. Being able to delegate successfully helps you tap into the potential of your staff. It helps you accomplish much more than you could working alone, and allows you to devote your time and efforts to your most critical tasks, or things you do best. Put simply, being able to delegate successfully is one of the keys to a successful career in Supervision or Management.

To help Managers, Supervisors and other Leaders learn these critical skills, KAW Consulting developed “DELEGATING FOR RESULTS” an easy to understand e-handbook that will help you learn the 6 key skills needed to delegate successfully. You’ll learn how to:

Identify what tasks to delegate

Identify the right people to delegate to

Identify the level of delegation that you’re comfortable with

Determine what the person doing the task needs to be able to deliver the results you expect.

Hold effective delegation meetings.

Conduct the needed follow-up to stay on top of the person’s progress.

Unlike most books that describe the delegation process in general terms, “DELEGATING FOR RESULTS” walks you through the process step by step, helping you think of the key ingredients to make your delegation successful, and avoid the common problems that crop up in unsuccessful ones. It even includes forms to help you analyze your major tasks and identify which ones are excellent candidates to delegate, furnish the person you’re delegating to with the important information they need to understand about the task, and a checklist to make sure you’ve considered the vitals steps when planning your delegation.

Designed specifically for e-book users this version of “DELEGATING FOR RESULTS” is something you’ll want to keep on hand and refer to each time you need to delegate a task.

How to Order

To view information on and order the Kindle version of “DELEGATING FOR RESULTS” either click the applicable link below, or visit your applicable Amazon website and input “Delegating for Results” in the search criteria.

Successful delegation is one of the most critical skill sets a Supervisor or Manager needs to develop. Being able to delegate successfully helps you tap into the potential of your staff. Learn how to find the right people to delegate to, and identify what they need to do the task successfully.

In this post, I’ll discuss 2 other vital things to consider when planning your delegation– finding the right person to do the task, and making sure they have what they need to accomplish it.

Finding the Right Person

To identify good candidates, consider the following questions:

What expertise is needed to do the task.

Who has it?

Who with that expertise is available?

Is that person willing to help?

Determining What They Need

Once you’ve identified a good candidate, you also need to consider what they need to do the task. These can include things like:

Information

Equipment

Access to or cooperation from other people.

The necessary time.

The necessary authority

Example: The Monthly Budget Report

Assume for a minute that you have responsibility for generating the monthly budget report. It’s a real headache and involves gathering information, putting it in a spreadsheet, analyzing variances and summarizing the information.

To date, you’ve done the whole thing yourself, including sending it out. In Part 2 you realized that it was actually a very good candidate for delegating many of the tasks involved in it to several of your staff members. By going through the questions above you determined that:

One of your staff members could gather some of the information if you taught him how.

Another person who knew spreadsheets and reports could enter the information and generate the report.

Your Admin Assistant is very happy to handle the distribution for you.

This allows you to concentrate your efforts on the real part of the process that takes your expertise–summarizing the information and explaining the variances.

So, by doing some analysis it turns out that you can delegate some of the tasks for this responsibility that have taken up a good chunk of your time. And since you’ve learned how to start delegating work that you’ve traditionally done yourself to your staff, you’ll probably be more prone to start looking at your other responsibilities for tasks to delegate as well.

So, How Do You Learn How to Delegate?

To start learning how to delegate effectively, see KAWConsulting’s “Delegating for Results”electronic handbook that takes you step by step through the delegation process.

Available in both Kindle and PDF

To meet the demands of our global users, “Delegating For Results“is now available in both Kindle and PDF versions. U.S. purchasers can purchase both. International users eligible to purchase from Amazon can purchase the Kindle Version. Both versions allow you to have it accessible each time you need to delegate a task.

KINDLE Version

For information on the Kindle version either click here, or visit your applicable Amazon website and input “Delegating For Results” in the search criteria.

PDF Version

For U.S. users, the PDF version allows you to store “Delegating For Results” on your computer so you have it accessible each time you need to delegate a task. It includes hyperlinks so you can jump right to the page or section you need without having to spend time scrolling through unneeded pages. You can purchase single copies or share with additional users by purchasing additional licenses. This makes it easy for organizations to increase the productivity of their staffs.

You can buy single copies for the low price of $15.95.

Sharing with additional users is also easy–just purchase additional licenses at $14.95 per user.

To view a sample and instructions on how to purchase online click here